linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] iTCO_wdt: Expose watchdog properties using platform data

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:45:50 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Peter Tyser <ptyser@...-inc.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Aaron Sierra <asierra@...-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] iTCO_wdt: Expose watchdog properties using platform
 data

On Tue, 28 Jul, at 04:28:32PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
> > On 07/28/2015 08:00 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > >>On Tue, 28 Jul, at 12:37:21PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>The driver shouldn't be called that either.
> > >>>
> > >>>You are the only one.  What makes iTCO 'special'?
> > >>
> > >>I don't know, I didn't write it. It looks like Wim did ~9 years ago, so
> > >>it must have made sense to him at the time.
> > >>
> > 
> > Coding style wasn't as strict then as it is today. iTCO has just been kept
> > for historic reasons.
> 
> For sure, I get that, but it doesn't mean we can't do-the-right-thing
> (tm) now does it?
> 
> > Sure, we could have changed it to lowercase, but so far no one bothered.
> > Plus, of course, there is always the element that some maintainers hate
> > that kind of cleanup,
> 
> Really?

Yes, really. 

> Surely any kind of clean-up is good clean-up.  Especially as Greg KH
> et. al, have been doing public presentations telling everyone that
> there is always kernel work for anyone who has the time; spelling
> corrections and all.
 
That's what staging/ was invented for ;-) Greg is quite happy to take
those patches, other maintainers are less so.

> Matt,
> 
> Either do the 5min clean-up or don't, no biggy.  If you don't then I
> can do it.

Go for it.

> At the very least please don't add any _new_ camel case variables or
> filenames.

OK, sure.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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